"Father Denis died on Christmas Eve. This was the day on which Father Emmanuel d’Alzon founded the Assumptionists in Nimes, France in 1850. In Bethnal Green, we had prayed earnestly to Father d’Alzon for his healing, but it seems our founder and our God wanted Denis to celebrate this day of our foundation with them in heaven." Father Tom O'BRIEN shared his feelings of hope for the loss of Father Denis in his homily during the Requiem Mass celebrated in Hitchin on the 12th February 2010.
“I am grateful for your fidelity to your vocation and your commitment…” were the words of encouragement of Father Benoit Grière, the Provincial Superior, when he came to open our Regional Assembly on the 22nd September 2009.
20th December 2008 Our Lady Immaculate and St Andrew, Hitchin.
“The virgin is with child and shall bear a son, and she will call him Emmanuel.”Is. 7, 14
I called today a “Golden Jubilee, a Golden Memory a Golden Advent” and I am sure that given the present economic crisis some of you would prefer just to have the first part of each doublet!! But we gather here to remember and to celebrate golden events. We hear again today of that Golden event that was instrumental in transforming our destiny from being a people lost and truly poverty stricken into a people with a golden destiny which we continue to live. The event I refer to is Mary saying yes to God, and yes to us and for us. It is therefore not only appropriate but just and right that we choose today to give thanks for the 50 Golden years of Father Robert’s priesthood, for his saying yes to God and a yes to us, a response that he lived so generously in the example of Mary.
Born in Carne, County Mayo, Eire, in the Diocese of Killala on 14th
May 1934, Brendan was the youngest child of Anthony and Mary
Kate O’Malley. He began his education in Belmullet before moving
on to St Maddock’s, Ballina, in 1947 where he matriculated
with honours. Soon after leaving school he left Ireland for the big
smoke, London. This move was intriguing because he suffered
from asthma and he was told the London smog would only
aggravate the condition!! On the contrary, he said that after
arriving in London he never suffered from asthma again!!
22 November 2008
The Bulgarian Assumptionist Martyrs
A day of Prayer and reflection for Vocations
10.30 - 15.30 6 December2008
Assumptionist Advent
A Day of Prayer and reflection
Preparing for Christmas
10.30 - 15.30 ->Address : Assumption Priory - Victoria Park Square - E2 9PB London
tel: 02089801968
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A Golden Jubilee, A Golden Memory, A Golden Advent
An afternoon of reflection, preparing for Christmas
14.00 - 17.30
Followed by Mass at 18.00 to celebrate the lateFr Robert Henshaw’s Golden Jubilee of Priesthood ->Address : Nightingale Road, Hitchin, Herts. SG5 1QS
tel: 01462 459 126
3rd Cycle of Talks
“The interfaith dialogue: building a more peaceful society” “Humility of heart as a way to eternal bliss”
by Rabbi Alan Plancey
Chief rabbi’s cabinet; Interfaith portfolio, Jewish-Christian relations
Minister at Elstee Borehamwood synagogue
Thursday 15th November 2007 at 19.30
The history of collaboration between Assumptionist religious and lay people who work with them in common enterprises, and/or who want to share all or part of Assumptionist spirituality is a very long one! A history affected by events in different epochs and changes in mentality. Since the last General & Provincial Chapters this collaboration seeks to express itself in the form of an "alliance"
Born in Carne, County Mayo, Eire, in the Diocese of Killala on 14th
